Plan
Which decade of modern music (60s - 10s) Is the most suitable to party? In other words what was the party decade? We will determine this by comparing multiple playlists based on energy, danceability and tempo.
We will use Spotify made playlists of all decades (given the fact that the algorithm is also made by Spotify this seemed fitting).
Playlists used:
- All out 60s
- All out 70s
- All out 80s
- All out 90s
- All out 00s
- All out 10s
- And because it is just 2021 we will not include the 2020s.
For some reason I’m unable to display more than one Key-, Chordo-, Chromagram without them overlapping.
Quickest decade
First we will be looking at the tempi of all songs for each decade. Then we will make tempograms for the most popular track from each decade.
Tempi Popular Songs
We’ll be looking at two outliers in the form of tempograms.On the left a tempogram of an outlier (relatively high BPM in the seventies): It’s a Shame by the Spinners.On the right a tempogram of an outlier (relatively slow in the eighties): Don’t Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerry
Histogram
Here we have a clear view of the frequency of every energy level of every song in each playlist. This puts us one step closer to deciding which decade was the “Party Decade”.
Chordogram/Keygram
I’m still standing - Elton John
These are the Keygram and Chordogram from one of the outliers. I haven’t had the chance to compare these to other songs from my Corpus.
Chroma/Cepstrograms
I’m Still Standing - Elton John Self similarities
